Post by Benedict Atticus Xerxes on Jul 19, 2013 8:44:59 GMT -5
Benedict Atticus Xerxes
The Basics
Full Name: Benedict Atticus Xerxes
Call Sign: None
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Ben
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Age: 48 years old
Birthday: September 17
Birthplace: Sagittaron
Occupation: Tactical Officer
Rank/Title: Chief Warrant Officer
Physical Appearance
Height: 185cm
Weight: 84kg
Build: Average
Hair: Ginger
Eye Color: Green
Distinguishing Marks: None
Possessions, Equipment, Belongings:
Other:
Play- By: Damian Lewis
Friends, Family, and Other Relationships
Mother: Tandelale Xerxes
Father: Atticus Xerxes
Siblings: Quinevere Xerxes, Clarissant Xerxes, Alasdair Xerxes and Olivier Xerxes
Significant Other: Tercitus Draoughack
Children: None
Other Notable Persons: None
Personality
Likes:
- Whisky
- Man/woman in uniform
- Piano Playing
- Hard work
- Music
Dislikes:
- Religion
- Sagittaron
- Stubborness
- Toasters
- Cigars
Fears:
- To fail at his job, his work is everything for him he has nothing else to go back to if he gets discharged
Strengths:
- Being a teamplayer
- Good Natured
- Strong Work Ethic
- Loyal
- Self Improvement/Eagerness to learn
Weaknesses:
- Emotionally Tongue Tied
- Commitment Issues
- Blunt
- Sensitive
Aspirations:
When Benedict was young his aspiration was to become a pilot in the Colonial Fleet, but when he grew older he gave up on that aspiration because it became clear he was not pilot material and with his religious parents he wouldn't be allowed to become a Colonial Officer. For a long time he didn't really have any aspirations thinking he would be stuck on Sagittaron for the rest of this life. Eventually he signed up for the Colonial Fleet Seeing he could not fail because there was nothing to go back to his aspiration was to become the best Colonial Officer he could.
General Personality:
Benedict or Ben for friends is a pretty easy going person, easy to get along with great sense of humor although it might take some time for him to warm up to you. He is a team player and loyal to both the Colonies and the people who he calls friends. He has been known to take one for the team, protecting his friends and taking the blame for something and getting in trouble himself for something he did not do. He is the type of person that likes to see others especially his friends happy. Besides that he is a hard worker, someone who worked his way up the ranks and is proud of this fact. Benedict is easy as a colleague and friends he is far more difficult in a relation having problems expressing himself and how he feels towards someone he has feelings for.
The Backstory
History:
Benedict Atticus Xerxes was born was the third child, the first son of Atticus Xerxes and Tandelale Xerxes. He has two older sisters Quinevere Xerxes and Clarissant Xerxes and the younger brothers Alasdair Xerxes and Olivier Xerxes. He and his brothers and sisters where born and grew up on Sagittaron. His parents like a lot of the citizens of Sagittaron where very religious his parents believed the Sacred Scrolls and followed them to the letter. His father was part of the clergy in one of the many temples in the capital of Sagittaron. Benedict and his siblings where thought about the Sacred Scrolls thoroughly and where forced to know every word and follow the Sacred Scrolls to the letter themselves. When he was young he did not question his parents as most younger children do, but when he grew up he started questioning Sacred Scrolls more and more until his parents could not handle it anymore and send him away so that they didn't have to deal with him anymore.
At age ten he was put in a boarding school and quickly learn to adapt to his situation he quickly learned that speaking up against religion and or the Sacred Scrolls was a sure way to get punished and he learned to keep his mouth shut shut and so not to get any punishment, a lesson he learned early in life, but would also be useful later in live when he joined the Colonial Military. He tried to keep his head down as much as possible and keep out of trouble although he wasn't always successful in doing so he was not considered a troublesome student. He stayed in the boarding school til the age of 18, during his time at the boarding school he did visit his parents and his brother and sisters at home, but it didn't feel like home anymore and he felt resentment towards his parents for sending him away. Although he was always happy to see his siblings and vice versa it was clear that they lost a lot of time together, time they would never be able to get back. When he was back home he was also happy to see his childhood friend Tercitus Draoughack back, the two had been best friends since they were toddlers and since that time always had been best friends. Over the last few months, in the limited time they had been able to spend together they learned they felt more for each other than just friends. Although very happy to have found somebody special it was also bittersweet because he had to go back to the boarding school. They did their best to make it work and enjoyed the limited time they had together.
When he turned eighteen and could finally make his own decision. His parents who were still trying to push him in the religious corner. They had hoped he had so to speak seen the light at the boarding school and hoped he would follow into his fathers footsteps and become part of the clergy. When they found out their son wanted to join the Colonial fleet they were heavily disappointing and strongly disapproved of his decision to join the Colonial Fleet and where not willing to pay for his tuition for the Colonial Academy leaving Benedict no other choice then taking the enlisted path. He and Tercitus Draoughack both took the Enlisted path because even though Tercitus parents where more open-minded and where willing to pay for Tercitus tuition of Colonial Academy they weren't able to pay for both of them. The two boys went true nine weeks of basic training where they learned the basics of being in the Colonial fleet. It wasn't the easiest 9 weeks but, they got through it together and where even more inseparable then before. After their Basic Training, they had to do some more in-dept training to specialise. With both being pretty good mechanics they choose to become Deck Hands.
After he passed basic training, and his additional Flight Deck Training, they were relieved to hear that both him and Tercitus where assigned to the Battlestar Endeavour as Deck Hand. It had always been Benedict to join the Colonial Fleet and to escape his family and Tercitus had just followed him. Tercitus started questioning if following Benedict to join the Colonial Fleet was the right decision and his uncertainty was the cause of much friction between the two. After two years on the Battlestar Endeavour, Benedict boyfriend Tercitus could not stand live on the ship anymore and requested a transfer to a planet side assignment this left Benedict crushed as he felt right on his place there and also couldn't think about a life where he and Tercitus would be away from each other for months. After Tercitus left, Benedict started to seclude himself from others and except during his shifts would not talk to anybody. Even though he excluded himself from everyone during his shift he did a good job as deckhand and worked hard and steadily worked his way up the ranks to the rank of Crewma. During his time of isolation he spend most of his free time studying Avionics so he could eventually specialise in Avionics and become an Avionics Technician instead of just another deckhand. His deck chief at the time aware of the young boys potential promoted him to Launch Technician. Although his crew-mates on the deck found him sometimes a bit strange acting like a hermit and always studying and never having fun. Benedict eventually passed his Avionics exam and was promoted to specialist and Avionics Technician. He requested to be assigned to another ship, it was nothing personal, but there were too many too many bad memories on the Endeavour.
He was reassigned to the Gunstar Ganymede a smaller ship then the Battlestar Endeavour, one of the advantages of serving on a smaller ship was that were promoted quicker and got a more senior position with a relative lower rank then on a battlestar. He served nine years on the Gunstar Ganymede first as Specialist, then as Petty Officer 2nd class and eventually as Petty Officer 1st class. He was promoted to Lead Avionics Technician and when the old Deck Chief retired Benedict was promoted to the new Deck Chief of the Gunstar Ganymede. He was very proud at having achieved this position on the ship where he had served for six years now. He also felt much more at home on the Ganymede, he made friends and started a new live for himself. Benedict and Tercitus hadn't talked to each other for years now but even technically Benedict was single he had never seriously looked at another man for a relation. He loved his job, his life, and the people on Ganymede, but he could not stop wondering what to do with himself and his career. He was a Chief Petty Officer and Chief of the Deck, but where was there to go from here. There were only limited options with somebody of his rank and position to further his position if he stayed an enlisted. It would mean eventually that he would have to take an assignment planet-side or forever be stuck doing the same job. Another option was going true Officer Candidate School and become an officer. During his time on Ganymede he befriended Captain William Hastings who was the Landing Signal Officer on the Ganymede and Benedict had been in the tower with him many times observing during the takeoffs and landings of the viper caps. Liking the new challenge he signed up for Officer Candidate School.
In 1989 he was going through the Officer Candidate School when tragedy struck and both his parents where murdered, the police investigated the murder, but never found any evidence that led to any suspect or found anything that could lead to the motive for the murder of Benedicts parents. When he found out what happened he did not feel much, not any grief, but he felt mainly numb and maybe even a bit relieve. This did mean he had to go back home, back to Sagittaron. He didn't look forward to. Another consequence was that he had he had to break off his training at Officer Candidate School and with failing his training he had to wait at least another year before he could try again. The funeral was emotional for most people who attended, but not for Benedicts. Although he was "happy" to see his siblings he had hoped that it would have been under better circumstances. His siblings turned out like he expected they turned out, just like their parents heavily religious and small-minded. Another person who attended the funeral was his boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend which was kind of awkward. The two talked for a bit, but did not get the chance to really talk like they needed to do. The next morning Benedict had to take an early transport back to Caparica, he said goodbye to his brothers and sisters not knowing when or if they would see them again.
When he arrived on Caprica he was told, as he expected that he had failed the Officer Candidate School training and had to wait another year before he could do it over again, but he was given the option of doing the warrant officer candidate school. He studied and trained hard and passed his exam with flying colors giving him the new rank of Warrant Officer. He was assigned as Landing Signal Officer to the Patrolstar Saratoga, a ship even smaller than the Gunstar he previously had served on. He kept his head low, did his job and after four years he was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer. In 1994 his home planet Sagittaron revolted as they feel oppressed by the Unified Government, Benedict although born on Sagittaron he felt in no way their action of revolt was justifiable. Although some people in both the fleet and civilians where sceptical of Sagittarons who served in the fleet. For Benedict his loyalty was with the Colonies and with the fleet, he had sworn his allegiance to the Colonies and for him that meant something. Although they where fighting going it was mostly on the surface of the planet, as Landing Signal Officer it was slightly more busy with Vipers and Raptors coming and going. It wasn't the first and not the last civil unrest that would arise in the Colonies, eight years after the uprising on Sagittaron there would be some Political unrest on Tauron although the Saratoga was not involved in the peacekeeping force. The same year of the Political unrest on Tauron Benedict was given a new position he was given the Tactical Officer position, a position he held for three years before being reassigned to the Battlestar Hyperion.
Service Record
1974 - 1974 | Gemenon Colonial Academy - Crewman Recruit - Basic Enlisted Training
1974 - 1974 | Gemenon Colonial Academy - Crewman Recruit - Enlisted Flight Deck Training
1974 - 1975 | Gemenon Colonial Academy - Crewman Apprentice - Deckhand
1975 - 1976 | Battlestar Endeavour - Crewman - Deckhand
1975 - 1976 | Battlestar Endeavour - Crewman - Launch Technician
1976 - 1978 | Battlestar Endeavour - Specialist - Launch Technician
1976 - 1978 | Gunstar Ganymede - Specialist - Avionics Technician
1978 - 1981 | Gunstar Ganymede - Petty Officer Second Class - Avionics Technician
1981 - 1982 | Gunstar Ganymede - Petty Officer First Class - Avionics Technician
1982 - 1985 | Gunstar Ganymede - Petty Officer First Class - Lead Avionics Technician
1985 - 1985 | Gunstar Ganymede - Chief Petty Officer - Lead Avionics Technician
1985 - 1989 | Gunstar Ganymede - Chief Petty Officer - Deck Chief
1989 - 1993 | Patrolstar Saratoga - Warrant Officer - Landing Signal Officer
1993 - 2000 | Patrolstar Saratoga - Chief Warrant Officer - Landing Signal Officer
2000 - 2003 | Patrolstar Saratoga - Chief Warrant Officer - Tactical Officer
2003 - ???? | Battlestar Hyperion - Chief Warrant Officer - Tactical Officer
The Player
Name/Alias: Ronald
Experience: I used to role play a lot, mostly Star Trek. I ran a (dutch) ST group for ~5 years
How you found Battlestar Hyperion: Google
Other characters: Not yet
Contact via: MSN: bobjuh@hotmail.com Skype: bobjuh mail: bobjuh@linux-nl.org
